breakfast

Other forms of breakfast

plural

breakfasts·

past tense

breakfasted·

present participle

breakfasting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about breakfast

What does breakfast mean?

breakfast means "eat an early morning meal". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in breakfast?

breakfast has 2 syllables: break-fast. The stress falls on "break". In IPA it is /ˈbɹɛkfəst/.

Is breakfast a common word?

breakfast is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.